I saw Bowie at Glastonbury in 2000, which has gone down as one of the great Glastonbury performances. At the time I left after a few songs as I was bored and wanted to dance, going to see Basement Jaxx instead. I regretted it for years, until I listened to the live album that was released, and still didn’t think it was that great.
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Thread: Notable gigs you've been to
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18-02-2021 06:46 PM #31
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18-02-2021 08:47 PM #33This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
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Radiohead in 2017 were my last Pyramid stage headliner - they were absolutely garbage for the first 45 minutes or so but something clicked and the last hour and a half was euphoric. Hit after hit after hit, and even a cheeky wee second encore of Creep and Karma Police to send everyone into the night happy. Lots of people headed off for something else in the first part of the set and missed a brilliant one.
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19-02-2021 12:33 PM #35This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
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As you say, the second half saved it. More than saved it really, it was great. I heard an interview with Ed O'Brien last summer in which he said that they'd got it wrong.
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19-02-2021 02:41 PM #37This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
Left feeling euphoric about how good the rest of it was though so job done, but that could and should have been a classic set.
I think it was the crowd and the state of the event two weeks after, but their set at TRNSMT was terrible. Spent the set around coked up ********s wanting to fight but the crowd never seemed into it. Shame, as 'The Bends' was great.
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19-02-2021 07:39 PM #39
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19-02-2021 09:32 PM #41
I must have seen thousands of bands over the years from Deep Purple to David Bowie and The Clash to Adel. There will be lots of gems but my memory's not what it was. Two stick out.
Queen at Knebworth '86. That was probably the best live performance in ever for me.
The Specials comeback tour 2009 i think, O2 Academy Glasgow, the atmosphere just before they came on was pure electric. Never felt an atmosphere like that before or since. The misses who was with me, she disappeared to the bar with half an hour, by the time i'd caught up wither after a couple of encores she'd found about a dozen Hibbys and a good after concert sesh was had.TOP CASH BACK
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19-02-2021 10:27 PM #42
Probably showing my age, but the best two gigs I’ve been to were in the last few years - Billy Joel’s sole UK gig at Wembley and the Paul Simon Farewell Tour in Glasgow.
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19-02-2021 11:27 PM #43This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
The only other one I can think of was the pogues , might have been 2010ish. Sound was ace and MacGowan seemed a lot less drunk and back in the form I remembered from late 80s.
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20-02-2021 06:45 AM #44
Richard Thompson in 1996 at the 3B Tavern in Bellingham (WA) was a standout for me.
I unexpectedly stumbled across a poster in the main street of this sleepy wee town advertising the gig that night. I’d seen him a few times over the years, but playing in a small bar with only Danny Thomson in accompaniment was something special. It was just so intimate with only about 50 patrons in attendance and an entry fee of ~$10....Amazing guitarist.
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02-03-2021 02:44 PM #45
Here's a notable one that no-one attended (although years later some pretended to have been there.)
Joy Division poster for cancelled Edinburgh gig at the Astoria sold for £2,500. Seems really steep considering the promoter was still printing them well into the 80's in an attempt to make some cash.
https://bid.omegaauctions.co.uk/auct...ster/?lot=5265
I still have two tickets for this and am now wondering if they are worth anything.
Saw them at the Odeon but shame this didn't happen, small venue and all that. Ten days later he was a goner.
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02-03-2021 02:55 PM #46
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those tickets will definitely be worth something...beautiful iconic poster that...was the Odeon gig when Buzzcocks were the main act?
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02-03-2021 03:03 PM #47This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
beautiful iconic poster that...was the Odeon gig when Buzzcocks were the main act?
With Buzzcocks yes, a bit sterile with a seated audience but still jaw-dropping.
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02-03-2021 03:05 PM #48This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show QuoteLess talk, more gifs. 21.05.16
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02-03-2021 07:22 PM #49
Went to Leeds fest for Liam Gallaghers first proper ‘big’ performance after his 4/5 years in the wilderness
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02-03-2021 07:44 PM #50This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
Found them. Am going to email that auction site and see what gives.
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Do you think your security can keep you in purity, you will not shake us off above or below. Scottish friction, Scottish fiction
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09-03-2021 10:33 AM #54
Idles in Sneaky Petes. About 80 of an audience, but a performance that you knew you’d never see them again in such an environment. Saw them the next year in Glasgow at G2, then a year later in Dublin at Vicar Street then the Barrowlands a couple of years back. The best and most incendiary show of the lot was the date at Sneaky Petes.
We used to go to a lot of Verve gigs, and at the Cathouse in Glasgow about the mid 90’s the support was Oasis. We’d heard of them by then but none of us were really that keen on them, but you could see they were destined for big things. Never believed they would go on to be quite as big mind you.
As a Fall fan I used to go travel to many gigs every year, mostly all the Scottish dates and north of England. After having to abandon plans to stay overnight for a Friday night gig in Wakefield in 2018, a fellow Hibs fan and I drove down and back up straight afterwards in order to attend the cup tie against Celtic at Hampden the following day. Mark E Smith performed in a wheelchair and was in a sorry looking state which shocked the audience, but he was in good form. On the Monday night, I drove down to Newcastle for the next gig and then a couple of weeks later a few of us were at QMU for the next one, and for what was The Fall’s last ever show, so I was glad to have been at the final three, and thankfully, given the unpredictability of Smith, they were all absolute stormers despite performing from a wheelchair. Mark E Smith died the following year.
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09-03-2021 12:16 PM #55
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09-03-2021 12:28 PM #56
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Anti Poll Tax concert in the Usher Hall was pretty good.
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09-03-2021 12:30 PM #58
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